Extra Credit Questions
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10-10-2020, 06:52 AM
Post: #3706
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am sorry, Bill, but it's not Sumner.
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10-10-2020, 08:25 AM
Post: #3707
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Who wrote in a letter the following words, to whom, from where, and when?
I can’t write any more today. I may see you before long — I don’t know — & so I won’t waste time by telling you what you must know as well as I do. I believe Lincoln is well understood by the people. . . . Bancroft’s address was a disgraceful exhibition of ignorance and prejudice. His effeminate nature shrinks instinctively from the contact of a great reality like Lincoln's character. I consider Lincoln Republicanism incarnate — with all its faults and all its virtues. And in spite of some rudenesses, Republicanism is the sole hope of a sick world, so Lincoln with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ. [End of letter] "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-10-2020, 08:56 AM
Post: #3708
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
David, please let us finish one trivia question before beginning another. Thanks.
Hint #1: This person has been mentioned many times on this forum beginning in 2012. Hint #2: The quote I used was reported by his sister. Hint #3: I could probably have logically put my trivia question in another trivia thread. |
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10-10-2020, 09:19 AM
Post: #3709
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
John Wilkes Booth?
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10-10-2020, 09:37 AM
Post: #3710
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Kudos, Susan. Yes, these words were reported by John Wilkes Booth's sister, Asia.
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10-10-2020, 10:30 AM
Post: #3711
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-10-2020 08:56 AM)RJNorton Wrote: David, please let us finish one trivia question before beginning another. Thanks. I apologize, Roger. In the past, I have not participated very much in this thread. I will not make the same mistake again. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-10-2020, 10:45 AM
Post: #3712
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I knew it was a Southerner, but I thought Booth would have been too easy. Well-played, Roger!
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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10-10-2020, 10:52 AM
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10-10-2020, 01:51 PM
Post: #3714
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
David, regarding your question...this was obviously written by a person who greatly admired Lincoln, so I shall guess Grant.
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10-10-2020, 03:18 PM
Post: #3715
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-10-2020 01:51 PM)RJNorton Wrote: David, regarding your question...this was obviously written by a person who greatly admired Lincoln, so I shall guess Grant. Grant is not the correct answer, Roger. Hints 1 & 2: The letter was written in Paris, France (not Illinois) in September, 1866. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-10-2020, 04:09 PM
Post: #3716
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
John Hay?
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10-10-2020, 05:40 PM
Post: #3717
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-10-2020 04:09 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote: John Hay? Susan, John Hay is the correct answer. John Hay to William H. Herndon. Paris, September 5. 1866. The letter reads in the beginning: My Dear Mr. Herndon I am so constantly busy that I have had no quiet day in which I write you what you desired in your letter several months ago. I have been ChargÄ d'Affaires nearly all summer, my day filled with official business and my night with social engagements equally imperative. Even now, I write because I am ashamed to wait any longer and have a few minutes disposable. I will answer your questions as you put them without any attempt at arrangement. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-11-2020, 05:14 PM
Post: #3718
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
No googling, please.
What is the name of the person who noted the following about President Lincoln? "He was not a born king of men but a child of the common people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort, and dogged perseverance. He slowly won his way to eminence and fame by doing the work that lay next to him – doing it with all his growing might – doing it as well as he could, and learning by his failure, when failure was encountered, how to do it better." |
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10-12-2020, 04:30 AM
Post: #3719
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I'll try Walt Whitman (must be him one of these questions and the words do , I think, sound like him .... )
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns |
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10-12-2020, 04:51 AM
Post: #3720
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Good guess, Michael, but it's not Whitman.
Hint #1: This man was well-known in the business he was in. If I mentioned the business, I think folks would get the answer right away. |
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